Ms Marvel is crawling to the finish line.

I really liked the first episode of Ms Marvel. I thought the lead actress was terrific for the part. I liked the background animation. It was a breath of fresh air.

So, naturally, it turned into a standard super hero origin story but with a Pakistani American lead. As the show has gone on they've gotten farther away from what made it fun to watch.

The dad is the best character in the series and he hasn't been on screen in two episodes. Red Dagger, the replacement to the replacement love interest, is a fine enough character I guess but the two actors have almost zero chemistry. The humor that really set this show apart from the rest is almost completely gone. The villains have, to be honest, sucked hind tit.

Now we are, ahem, racing to the finish line in the next episode but we haven't established the Department of Damage Control really. The people who had been the lead villains are deader than disco (not that they were great but we at least knew what they wanted and who they were). Everything is rushed, incomplete, and frankly a bit of a cluster frick.

This is a snatch defeat from the jaws of victory show right now. Which is a shame because they've got some perfectly cast actors who could absolutely kill with the right material and they've turned the show into a generic hero story with a glossy Muslim Pakistani cover thrown over it.